Sunday, May 13, 2007

Even Dictionaries Make Grammar Mistakes?

A friend pointed out this sentence from the CD-ROM of the Cambridge Advanced Learners' Dictionary:

Understand (KNOW) 5 understand one another/each other When two people understand one another, they both know what the other means and wants and they have an agreement: Both sides must try to understand one another, to recognise each others' rights, feelings and beliefs. See also understanding (AGREEMENT).

The possessive forms of each other and one another are written each other'sand one another's: The boys wore each other's (not each others') coats. They hadforgotten one another's (not one anothers') names.